Browns owner Jimmy Haslam unchained is something to behold. He makes George Steinbrenner look like Procrastinator of the Century. Haslam would make coffee nervous. He changes coaches like he changes socks. He changes front office personnel like he changes shirts. And he’s only been on the job 16 months.

“There is no primer for being an NFL owner. You learn on the go,” said Jittery Jimmy, after throwing out still more Berea bathwater on Tuesday.

It’s always full speed ahead for Jimmy The Jet. Top down, pedal to the metal, silver mane blowing in the wind. Greased lightning, baby!

So let’s see here. Since buying the Browns for a mere $1 billion in October of 2012, Haslam has fired Mike Holmgren, Tom Heckert, Pat Shurmur, Rob Chudzinski, Banner and Lombardi. That’s two general managers, two coaches, a team president and a CEO. All in 16 months.

Since the end of the 2013 season, just six weeks ago Haslam has fired the team’s CEO, general manager and head coach. A clean sweep. In Haslamtown, you can’t tell the scapegoats without a scorecard, so Godspeed, Ray Farmer and Mike Pettine. Those are the two new, and, Haslam history tells us, temporary Browns general manager and head coach.

Prior to buying the Browns, Haslam was a minority owner of the Steelers, who have had three head coaches in the last 45 years. Pettine is Haslam’s third coach in 14 months.

In announcing Tuesday Banner and Lombardi have left the building — although Banner will stick around until May, or until the arrival of his gold watch commemorating his several days of meritorious service to the organization — Haslam heaped praise on both men.

“I can’t thank Joe enough,” said Haslam, who proved it by firing Joe.

“Mike understands how to put together a good football team,” said Haslam, who stopped short of adding, “just not ours.”

So why was Tuesday’s front office shakeup necessary?

“The previous setup was cumbersome,” said Haslam, who created the previous setup.

One result from the cumbersomeness of the Browns is that they seem to have a hard time finding people willing to come work for them. Haslam vigorously denies, despite mountains of evidence and national perception to the contrary, that the Browns are a dysfunctional franchise.

In their last coach search they had multiple candidates turn down the opportunity to even interview for the job. That’s not exactly a ringing endorsement by the industry of the organization’s functionality.

Pettine emerged from the swampy goo of the last disjointed, overly extended, seemingly unfocused coach search — and two of the men who interviewed him and had a hand in hiring him are now no longer with the organization.

Farmer, the current GM, was not a part of the interview process that resulted in the hiring of Pettine.

Instead, Farmer was evaluating players at the Senior Bowl, which is normally where teams’ general managers are supposed to be — but Lombardi wasn’t since he was tied up trying to find some candidates who were even willing to talk about possibly coaching the Browns.

Dysfunctional? Naw.

The irony of Haslam’s latest housecleaning is that this time he might have actually gotten it right. There’s a reason why Banner and Lombardi weren’t employed by any NFL teams when Haslam hired them.

That Lombardi even accepted the job knowing he wasn’t going to be permitted to speak publicly as the face of the organization, which is at or near the top of any general manager’s job description, raises several questions, none of them good.

Banner oversaw the Browns last draft, which rivals the Cavaliers’ last draft as the worst drafts by any team in any professional sport over the last 12 months. The meandering search for the Browns’ last two coaches, and the number of candidates who wanted no part of an interview, also did not reflect well on Banner.

Hence, another Browns reboot.

Hence, another Haslam reboot.

“If you want to look at me as a work in progress,” he said, “that’s fair.”

Progress?

When?

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